A cascade thermoacoustic engine is described, consisting of one standing-wave stage plus two traveling-wave stages in series. Most of the acoustic power is produced in the efficient traveling-wave stages. The straight-line series configuration is easy to build and allows no Gedeon streaming. The engine delivers up to 2 kW of acoustic power, with an efficiency (the ratio of acoustic power to hea...

Power ultrasonic reactors have gained a lot of interest in the food industry given the effects that can arise from sound induced cavitation. However, most of the new food processing developments have been based on empirical approaches. Thus, there is a need for mathematical models which help to understand, optimise and scale up ultrasonic reactors. In this work, a CFD model has been developed, ...

We report theoretical and experimental results on the radiation pattern of the ion acoustic waves below the ion cyclotron frequency from a small probe in a streaming magnetoplasma. In the fluid approximation with cold ions the ion acoustic resonance cones are found to be drastically changed. Experimental ray velocities and constant phase surfaces are in good agreement with the theoretical results.

In this paper, Part 7 of the thematic tutorial series "Acoustofluidics-exploiting ultrasonic standing waves, forces and acoustic streaming in microfluidic systems for cell and particle manipulation", we present the theory of the acoustic radiation force; a second-order, time-averaged effect responsible for the acoustophoretic motion of suspended, micrometre-sized particles in an ultrasound field.

In this contribution, I summarize some of the recent results within theory and simulation of microscale acoustofluidic systems that I have obtained in collaboration with my students and international colleagues. The main emphasis is on three dynamical effects induced by external ultrasound fields acting on aqueous solutions and particle suspensions: The acoustic radiation force acting on suspen...

We calculate the second-order streaming force in a fluid in the vicinity of the solid/fluid interface for two systems of importance in the technology of megasonic cleaning of silicon wafers. The first system consists of a single planar interface between a solid elastic medium representing silicon and a viscous fluid, namely water. The second system accounts for the finite thickness of silicon w...